Boy George objects to murder - so they're trying to murder his music

Boy George is a massive, massive rock star.

He is.  The BBC voted him one of the 100 greatest Britons in history. He has received prestigious awards from the British Academy of Songwriters. His band Culture Club won a Grammy for best new artist 1984. He has sold more than 50 million records worldwide - many of them certified platinum, meaning at least a million were purchased.

His music spans multiple genres - rock, reggae, disco, new wave, soul, EDM - but there can be little debate: Boy George, née George Alan O’Dowd in London in 1961, is a bona fide star. A critic at the left-leaning Guardian, no less, once said Boy George is “funny and generous and engaging.” He is.

Lately, however, The Guardian has been less kind. A few days ago, the newspaper took note of Boy George again, and wrote disapprovingly about the singer’s support for Jews and the Jewish state in his new song, We Will Dance Again. “Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza,” wrote The Guardian, uncritically accepting the claims of Hamas, a terror group in Britain and elsewhere.

Israel was “targeting children,” declared The Guardian. “The overall Palestinian death toll since the war started is more than 73,000.”

Well, no, it isn’t. But facts are inconvenient to haters, so they make up their own facts, or they rely on a terror group as a source. Boy George has been learning this new reality the hard way.

He isn’t Jewish, but Boy George has always felt an affinity for Hebraic culture.  He’s worn a Star of David from the start of his music career in the early Eighties, and nobody gave a toss. He’s expressed sympathy for Palestinians, and opposition to some decisions of the government of Israel.

Now, however, Boy George has earned the wrath of the forces of cultural fascism for singing a reggae-ish pop song with lyrics about the Nova Music Festival massacre, where nearly 400 young people were slaughtered by Hamas and Gazans on October 7, 2023.

“If you’re ever confused, I stand with the Jews,” George sings. “I don’t feel brave, I just need to behave like a human.” He goes on to correctly address why so many have been swayed by the siren song of antisemitism: “You condemn the Jews, with selective memory…Musicians holding flags, mouthing like sheep! Propaganda fuelled by the Internet feels so weak.”

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